Oshun (the river) and Yemaya (the ocean) Goddesses of Love and Luck.
Working and Venerating the Sister Goddesses of Africa, Oshun, the goddess of the river, love, and fertility, and Yemaya, the goddess of the ocean, fertility, and family.
Greetings and hugs to all the readers who walk around here (incredible, every time we are many more !!), today I am going to share in this post some information that may be useful to you about the Orishas of the waters, and how to work with them when You are not initiated in one of the corresponding Afro-Caribbean currents.
As promised earlier, I had this post saved waiting until our beloved Lilith Dorsey published her new book "Orishas, Goddesses and Voodoo Queens", to take it as a reference, but then I just forgot to post the post, Thanks Adriana for the reminder.
I would like to bore you a bit with all this “background” about coming from Venezuela, having grown up in the Amazon, having been initiated into the Candomble and the Lucumi way, 14 and 17 years ago respectively, but you can find all that in my biography, so here we get to the point, what you have come to.
The Orixas are (for lack of a better name) divine essences, spirits that incarnate different forces of nature and express themselves through them, they are enormously powerful, they come from Africa, as well as all of humanity (Thank you !!), and Although the Afro-Caribbean rites are mostly reserved for those who have been initiated in their corresponding ways, Candomble, Umbanda, Quimbanda, Lucumi, Yoruba, Ifa, etc..., It is not new that the Orixas always pay vital attention., even those who are not initiated, and if you doubt it, before answering, just try it, you will see the results, and you will be able to judge for yourself.
The Orixas are entities derived from a primordial deity "Oloddumare", below this post I will leave you the links corresponding to other posts that I have previously written about other deities of Africa and the Caribbean.
The Orixas or Orishas, are forces of nature that influence humanity in all possible forms and aspects, we have as many Orishas as gods in the Greek pantheon, but the light always jumps to the group of the central Orixas (Xango, Yemaya, Oshun, Eleggua, Oya), here I am going to share some information about some of these Orishas, who unlike others like Shango and Olokun, is certainly more "accessible" for those who have not been initiated.
Since I have given you a brief (incomplete) and clear introduction to the Orixas, here I leave you the links to each one, on each page I leave you a brief introduction to the corresponding Orixa and a couple of rituals that you can perform without having to enter in religion or without having been an initiate. They are simple rituals to do and do not require any elaborate preparation, I hope they serve you, put them into practice, and help you a lot.
Read here: Oshun, Goddess of the river.
Read here: Yemaya, Goddess of the sea.
Other similar posts you should read:
The best books on English about this:
- The Yoruba religious concepts manual. by Baba Ifa Karade.
- Orishas, Goddesses and Voodoo Queens: The Divine Feminine in African Religious Traditions. by Lilith Dorsey.
- Voodoo and traditional African religion. by Lilith Dorsey.
- Yemaya: Orisha, Goddess, and Queen of the Sea. By Raven Morgaine.
SAVE YOUR SPOT FOR THE UPCOMING VIRTUAL CLASSES:
JUNE 6 ~
Candomble: A Class on History, Culture, Slavery, & Sorcery.
How much do we know about it? Very little, because the dictionaries and encyclopedias lack the necessary information, and how good that is, because in the same tradition of the Candomble, this is considered a magical tradition that must be transmitted orally and whose certain details must remain secret, that is why in this workshop we will make an intensive and fast class trying to approach from its roots and origins, the form of its transformation and that which strikes many of us, the magical practice that performs within it.
Everyone is welcome to attend and participate in this workshop where we will explore the roots of one of the most beautiful esoteric traditions brought from Africa together, that which yields a sacred cult to the Orixas and the ancestors in such an admirable way that we fall in love with just thinking about it.
JULY 18 ~
Abundance, Health, Protection, & Love, w / the Orishas (Open Rituals).
The Orishas (Orixas) are commonly considered the purest, oldest, and raw form of the powers and events of nature, from the roads, the fire, and the hurricane, to love, health, and good fortune.
In this class, I invite you to learn about the open rituals that we commonly use to make the orishas feel welcome in our home and thus receive their blessing and divine protection. More importantly, the origin of many of these rituals is often ignored.
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